Chicago doctors urge vaccinations as flu season gets an early start
Doctors in the Chicago area are urging people to get their flu shot now as cases start to ramp up, with flu season starting earlier than expected.
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Doctors in the Chicago area are urging people to get their flu shot now as cases start to ramp up, with flu season starting earlier than expected.
DuPage County has reported its first measles case of 2026, and said the patient traveled through Chicago O'Hare International Airport.
Flu season is hitting earlier this year, with hospitals already tracking cases across Chicago, about a month earlier than normal.
The Vatican announced this weekend that Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery this week after a nodular lesion was found in his lung, but experts say such a discovery does not necessarily mean cancer.
The Rev. Charles Rubey founded the LOSS Program in 1979 after hearing from women whose priest told them their loved ones were in hell. Now the Chicago archdiocese has dedicated a memorial in his honor.
The Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation announced a new partnership with Endeavor Health on Thursday morning.
DuPage County, Illinois, on Tuesday announced its first West Nile Virus death of 2026.
The World Health Organization says public risks are low after a plague center worker's death, but Marco Rubio says Moscow should "share more information with the world."
Sixteen of the state's cases this year trace to an outbreak among people who were unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination history. Health officials say the overall risk is very low but want residents to confirm they're protected.
The Chicago Department of Public Health on Wednesday launched its first "street psychiatry" teams, in an effort to provide mental health services to some of the city's most vulnerable people.
A new Illinois law lets terminally ill patients request a lethal prescription to end their lives, making the state the 13th in the U.S. — and the first in the Midwest — to permit it.
Nearly half of Americans with medical debt owe at least $2,000, forcing them to make tough choices, new research shows.
A judge on Tuesday was expected to place two shuttered Chicago-area safety-net hospitals into receivership.
Cardinal Blase Cupich and a group of Catholic nuns have joined a federal lawsuit challenging Illinois' Medical Aid in Dying law, which is set to take effect in just over a week.
Flies have been everywhere this summer in the Chicago area, and some of them bite. But why is this happening?
